Chapter 4 World Cultures
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- Culture
- the way of life of people who share similar customs or beliefs
- technology
- tools and skills that people need
- cultural landscape
- a landscape that has been changed by human beings and that reflects their culture
- social structure
- the ways in which people within a culture are organized into smaller groups
- nuclear family
- a family unit that includes a mother, father, and their children
- extended family
- a family unit that may include parents, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives
- economy
- a system for producing, distributing, consuming and owning goods, services, and wealth
- producer
- a person who makes products that are used by other people
- goods
- products that are made to be sold
- services
- work done or duties performed for other people
- capitalism
- an economic system in which people and private companies own both basic and nonbasic business and industries
- socialism
- an economic system in which the government owns most basic industries and nonbasic industries are privately owned
- government
- the system that establishes and enforces the laws and institutions of society
- constitution
- a set of laws that defines and limits a governmets power
- representative democracy
- a system of government in which people elect representatives to run the country
- dictator
- a ruler who has complete power over a country
- cultural difusion
- the movement od customs and ideas from one culture to another
- acculturation
- the process of accepting, borrowing, and exchanging ideas
- cultural diffusion
- the movement of customs and ideas